Here’s an interesting feature of Excel you may not have heard of – Speak cells. When activated, Excel will read everything you type into a cell or column aloud.
This can be especially useful if you’re entering a lot of data from a piece of paper or another app since it will confirm what you’re typing when you’re not looking at the screen.
Here’s how you can use it. Let’s start by putting shortcut icons to the feature as part of your Quick Access Toolbar in Excel. Open a spreadsheet in Excel and click the little drop-down arrow at the top right.
Choose More commands from the drop-down menu.
Click the arrow next to Choose commands from.
Select All commands.
Scroll down to Speak Cells select it, and then hit Add. Select OK when you’re finished.
The Speak Cell icon will now be added to the ribbon. If I want to have a column or row read aloud, I just click the icon.
